Study of Diaspora in Caryl Churchill’s Seven Jewish Children – A play for Gaza

Abstract

Caryl Churchill is one of the contemporary titan figures in the world of British drama and theater. She effectively handled the Diaspora literature in her play “Seven Jewish Children -
A Play for Gaza in 2009”. Children are being a victim in patriarchal society and Warfield. This paper is an attempt to spotlight how the Gaza children or girl children faced the diasporic experiences of the war. So, they scattered from their home, motherland, or ancestral land to refugee camps, rehabilitation centers, hospitals, and the army. They lost their childishness and childhood happiness and became traitors, conspirators, and deserters in the young stage itself. She coined the term “Tell her” and “don’t tell her” often. Because she doesn't want to frighten the children regarding the war, war field, and their past sentimental nostalgia which they did not attain and prohibited in current situations like education, mothers love, fathers care, food, shelter. They are searching for their own lives and identities. It is very pathetic. She narrated the harsh journey undertaken by the children and “homeland” protagonists either adopting or rejecting new cultural codes of their new “sense of place”. The children's Journey is not only towards self-realization, self-knowledge, and self-recognition but also fighting to survive and come out from the past thoughts. Caryl’s pathos writing is reflecting her strong moral support to the children.